The photo is from the article that is featured at the page you are now reading. Caption reads: Denise Harris, chief historian for the Etobicoke Historical Society, (left) and Jaan Pill, amateur historian and Long Branch resident who runs the Preserved Stories website, sit inside Montgomery’s Inn on Tuesday, Sept. 12. – Justin Greaves/Metroland

The article is by Cynthia Reason; the photo is by Justin Greaves of Metroland.

The article is beautifully written. It starts with humour, continues with a relative newcomer to local history, and concludes with an amateur historian who’s been at the game for many years.

In future, I will feature brief interviews I did with Denise Harris and Justin Greaves, on the occasion of the Sept. 12, 2017 photo shoot at Montgomery’s Inn, connected with this well-written, informative article about local history in Etobicoke. The interviews asked each of the subjects how they got started in their respective lines of work. That’s a topic that is always of interest to me, as a writer and observer.